Germany Lost Race for Atomic Bomb Because of Anti-jewish Policy, N.Y. Press Comments

Leading American newspapers today emphasize in their editorials that America and England developed the atomic bomb before Germany primarily because Germany drove her Jewish scientists to England and the United States.

The New York Times says in an editorial: "Though the credit for having forestalled the Germans must go to the air forces that bombed German research laboratories where secret weapons were developed, we have some reason to thank Hitler and Mussolini for handicapping themselves. The Fuehrer’s irrational glorification of Nordies and Il Duce’s acceptance of the Nuremberg policy had the result of presenting us with some of the best physicists of Germany and Italy and of occupied countries.

"Consider the galaxy of scientific stars that shine in the American atomicbomb firmament. ‘Thanks for having forced Dr. Lise Meitner to flee to Stockhoim,’ we say to Hitler, when we recall that she played her part in blazing the trail that led to the release of energy from the uranium atom. ‘And thanks for Neils Bohr, who, though a Dane, was inacceptable to you under your Nuremberg laws and who formulated the theory on which the atomic bomb is based.’ That man Bohr was a godsend, one of the leaders in the group that worked here on the bomb. ‘Thanks, too, for Einstein," who was also consulted and who gave us the simple equation that showed just what the relation of matter to energy is and how one can he converted into the other.

"And then there is Enrice Fermi. What a mistake you made, 11 Duce, when you obligingly toed Hitler’s Nordic mark and forced him out. He was Italy’s foremost physicist, this Fermi, the man who showed how easily a slow neutron can slip into an atom, to burst its nuclous and release the terrific energy that laid Hiroshima low. A priceless gift was he to the group that developed the bomb. There must be scores of others who were not mentioned in the official announcements–engineers, technicians. chemists, physicists of distinction, all gifts of Hitler and Mussolini. Great Britain receives our thanks for different reasons. Her case was a whole-hearted willingness to pool the knowledge of experts, just as she did in the case of jet-propulsion."

ATOMIC BOMB IS PRODUCT OF "NON-ARYAN" SCIENTISTS SAYS HERALD-TRIBUNE

The New York Herald-Tribune in an editorial points out that the atomic bomb might be labeled "Made in America" but is by no means an exclusively American products.

"Consider the names and origins of those prominently associated with this scientific triumph, possibly the greatest in human history, the article says. "Let us begin with Dr. Lise Meitner, a pioneer in the long search for a method of releasing atomic energy. She is a woman physicist whom the Nazis expelled from Germany as a "non-Aryan" and who, with her associates, Drs. Otto Hahn and F. Strassman, both chemists, had been working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons and then submitting the result to chemical analysis. After her expulsion she went to Copenhagen and there with Dr. Frisch, another physicist, continued her experiments. Together they discovered the key to the great secret. Dr. Frisch cabled the news to Dr. Neils Bohr. a former associate in Copenhagen, then over here, and he, Professor Enrico Ferni, of Italy, and our own Professor John R. Dunning repeated the successful experiment at Columbia."

The New York Post, PM and other metropolitan newspapers comment in similar vaim emphasizing that racial hatred prevented the Nazis from securing the secrets leading to the creation of the epoch-making atomic bomb, as most of the research in the atomic field had been done by Jewish scientists whom Hitler forced to leave Germany.